Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees
Thursday, 15 January 2015
Committee of Inquiry into the Banking Crisis
Context Phase
Joe Higgins (Dublin West, Socialist Party)
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On page 16, Professor Honohan says, "One additional element deserving of consideration is the suggestion by some commentators that the fact that some banking personages were politically well connected might have been a key factor in discouraging aggressive supervisory intervention". What is his view on that?